The best of the Bath area’s tourism businesses have been recognised at the inaugural Bath Events, Hospitality and Tourism Awards (BEHTA). The 20 winners were presented with their awards in front of an audience of more than 200 industry figures and sponsors at a glittering black tie ceremony at Bath’s historic Assembly Rooms. Lucknam...
By Nick Sturge, centre director, SETsquared and Vice-chair, High-Tech Sector Group, West of England Local Enterprise Partnership Having worked with nearly 300 high-tech start-up businesses – some for just an hour, some for several years – and having done a start-up myself, I've watched, very carefully, how leadership develops and evolves over the life...
Trade and investment minister Lord Livingston has been given a glimpse of the innovation and global ambitions of specialist software firm SciSys on a visit to its Chippenham headquarters. The firm, which develops bespoke IT services and integrated systems in a range of sectors including space and defence, is looking to grow its international...
Measures announced in Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech to help small and growing businesses and speed up infrastructure projects have been welcomed by Business West, the organisation behind that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce. It also praised the Coalition Government for promising a relatively small number of new Bills in its final year before the General...
Annual profits at Wincanton, the Chippenham-based logistics group, accelerated by more than a fifth to £25.6m in the year to the end of March as its cost reduction measures began to take effect. The 20.2% increase in underlying pre-tax profits was achieved on a 1.1% rise in revenues to just under £1.1bn. Sales in...
Shepton Mallet Cider Mill is aiming to meet spiralling demand for specialist ciders by selling three of its brands in bag-in-a-box packaging. Somerset Snuffler, Natch Special, and Somerset Tree Shaker are the first ciders the firm has produced in this way. The firm aims to capitalise on this summer’s ‘cider season’ and the surge...
Wiltshire-based specialist manufacturer Avon Rubber has won an order worth $33m (£19.6m) from the US Department of Defense (DoD) for 135,000 of its M50 protection masks. The order is an extension of an earlier contract with the Pentagon under which Melksham-based Avon has supplied the masks for use by the US armed forces and...
The development director at GreenSquare, the Chippenham-headquartered social housing and care provider, has received a Winston Churchill medallion for researching affordable housing in the US. Vic O’Brien’s study, undertaken through the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, looked at the US’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit system (LIHTC) with a view to seeing if a similar...
The Bath stage of the Tour of Britain cycle ride is to be sponsored by airline KLM and Bristol Airport, it has been announced. The stage – the sixth of eight across the country – takes place on September 12 and is expected to attract thousands of spectators to the city as well as...
Bath-based 1pm, the specialist lender to small firms, has received another £4m to write new business to meet ever-growing demand. The firm secured £2.5m from its banks in April and over the past year has raised a total of £11.3m. The latest funding is made up of a new £3m facility and an increase...
